Hillary looking good...

"The Crack"

Prescient stuff by Richard Rorty in 1998 on the Trump phenomenon.
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https://twitter.com/sahilkapur/status/802193348413026304

Compare: Justin Trudeau statement vs. Donald Trump-tweet on death of communist dictator Fidel Castro

Three Wisconsin Counties Just Admitted They Padded Trumps Win With Fake Votes

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The presidential election of 2016 was the most contentious and bizarre in American history. On top of the vile rhetoric that was spewed by now President-elect Donald Trump, it now appears that certain voting tallies in Wisconsin were hedged in Trump’s favor.

A county in Wisconsin named Outagamie County had four precincts in the areas of Cicero, Grand Chute, Bear Creek, and Hortonville which all showed that they had fewer people overall than had voted in the presidential election. This instance, naturally, caused the Internet to fly in a fury claiming, rightly, that voter fraud was taking place. The precincts quickly adjusted their voting totals, which removed over a thousand votes from Donald Trump’s side. What a coincidence, the party which has spent years decrying voter fraud were once again benefiting from voter fraud. Dan Solomon of Fast Company was the first to point this out:


You can see the Grand Chute 1-3 results here. All 1126 extra votes were for Trump. Clinton’s total is the same. 2/x

https://twitter.com/dansolomon/status/801119923577569280

Same deal in Hortonville. Trump’s number down by 400+ votes, Clinton’s unchanged. Ballots cast now matches votes counted. 3/x
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https://twitter.com/dansolomon/status/801120460763082752?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw


The village clerk of Hortonville, Lynn Mischkerm offered an explanation to the discrepancy, which didn’t make much sense at the time and under further analysis was proved to be a falsehood. She said:

In order to give election returns to the Outagamie County Clerk’s office as quickly as possible the Chief Inspector added together the votes from the election machine tapes. An error was made while keying the numbers on the calculator during this process resulting in an incorrect number of votes reported on Election night. The official process of tallying the votes was completed and rechecked. These vote numbers were recorded and delivered to the Outagamie County Clerk’s office the morning of November 9th. The official tally reflects the accurate votes in the Village.

Retired English teacher evaluates Trump's meeting with the NYT in pungent letter to the editor

George Lakoff: A Minority President: Why the Polls Failed, And What the Majority Can Do

November 22, 2016
By George Lakoff


The American Majority
Hillary Clinton won the majority of votes in this year’s presidential election.

The loser, for the majority of voters, will now be a minority president-elect. Don’t let anyone forget it. Keep referring to Trump as the minority president, Mr. Minority and the overall Loser. Constant repetition, with discussion in the media and over social media, questions the legitimacy of the minority president to ignore the values of the majority. The majority, at the very least, needs to keep its values in the public eye and view the minority president’s action through majority American values.

The polls failed and the nation needs to know why. The pollsters and pundits have not given a satisfactory answer.

I will argue that the nature of mind is not a mere technical issue for the cognitive and brain sciences, but that it had everything to do with the outcome of the 2016 election — and the failure of the pollsters, the media, and Democrats to predict it. They were not alone. The public needs to understand better how the human mind works in general — but especially in politics. There is a lot to know. Let us go step by step.

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xlnt read:
https://georgelakoff.com/2016/11/22/a-minority-president-why-the-polls-failed-and-what-the-majority-can-do/#more-5389

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The epitome of post-election white privilege. He wasn't put off plane in spite of multiple requests

Please watch:


https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/801786005720285184
https://twitter.com/ShaunKing/status/802150105923063808

Every household will lose 1,250 a year because of Brexit, says Institute for Fiscal Studies

Winter Is Coming.